Britney Spears is an American singer, songwriter, and actress. A pop icon, she skyrocketed to fame with her 1998 debut single, ...Baby One More Time, one of the defining anthems of the late 1990s, off her No. 1 multi-platinum album of the same name. Spears went on to release a string of smash pop albums including Oops!... I Did It Again (2000), In The Zone (2003), and Blackout (2007).

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Her discography also boasts a string of unforgettable, chart-dominating hits, such as Womanizer, Scream & Shout featuring will.i.am, Till the World Ends featuring Nicki Minaj and Kesha, Toxic (which won a Grammy Award for Best Dance Recording in 2005), Me Against The Music with Madonna, and Oops!... I Did It Again.

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Beyond music, Spears — who started her career as a Disney Mouseketeer on The Mickey Mouse Club alongside Justin Timberlake, Ryan Gosling,and Christina Aguilera — has appeared in the film Crossroads with Zoë Saldaña and the documentary Britney Spears: Breaking Free.